Asymptote: Vector Graphics Programming Language for Technical Drawings

Posted by pmalynin on Friday November 20, 2015 @07:47PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/vectorgraphics/asymptote/blob/master/README

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Re:Asymptote: Vector Graphics Programming Language for Techn... by samatman on Friday November 20, 2015 @08:41PM (#10605095)

My first Github repo was/is an asymptote program for generating Go kifu:

https://github.com/mnemnion/gasym

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Re:Asymptote: Vector Graphics Programming Language for Techn... by maxerickson on Friday November 20, 2015 @09:52PM (#10605316)

It's not really directly comparable, but for simple illustrations I had a better time wrapping my head around sketch:

http://sketch4latex.sourceforge.net/sketch.html

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Re:Asymptote: Vector Graphics Programming Language for Techn... by stephensonsco on Saturday November 21, 2015 @12:34AM (#10605789)

Yes! I have lazily been waiting for something like this to come along and hopefully bump out metapost. Maybe this has already happened and I am out of the loop on that though.

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Re:Asymptote: Vector Graphics Programming Language for Techn... by uhoreg on Saturday November 21, 2015 @10:14AM (#10606966)

Asymptote itself has been around for over 10 years. There is also TikZ, which is quite popular. I don't have much experience with TikZ (I'm just starting to learn it), but my impression is that Asymptote is more powerful, but TikZ is more integrated into the LaTeX workflow.

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Re:Asymptote: Vector Graphics Programming Language for Techn... by webaholic on Friday November 20, 2015 @10:50PM (#10605474)

Going through the github repo... why is it not yet standard practice to have a src/ and include/ directory for a project layout? It is just my personal preference or do others think the same?

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